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djweso's recipe for thought.
Smallville Gallery - Wonder Twin Powers activate!
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But in one of her most revealing-ever interviews, Nicole Kidman let slip how her experiences of love ranged from ‘mundane’ marriage to ‘strange sexual fetish stuff’.
The 42-year-old actress, currently married to country singer Keith Urban, said her life had been about exploring different types of love.
‘I’ve explored obsession. I’ve explored loss and love in terms of being in a grief-stricken place, I’ve explored strange sexual fetish stuff, I’ve explored the mundane aspect of marriage, and monogamy,’ she said.
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DIYer Steve Hoefer has been hard at work making every 6 year old’s dream come true: A device that unlocks your door whenever someone seeking entrance taps out the secret knock.
His device, which fits easily over the inside of your doorknob and lock, counts the time between successive knocks and can be reprogrammed to whatever knock-pattern you see fit. If the wrong series of knocks is tapped out, the device simply ignores it and waits for the appropriate pattern to allow entrance.
Hit up Steve Hoefer’s weblog Grathio for the full tutorial, or just stick to opening your doors by keyfob instead. Physical keys are so 2008.
Secret Knock Detecting Door Lock [Grathio via Make]
I went as Low Resolution for Halloween.
The shirt took forever to paint, and my face only took slightly forever.
Wu-Note Project
First of all, let me say that I have mad love for Reid Miles, Blue Note’s graphic designer that was able to take Francis Wolff’s photographs and Alfred Lion’s musical vision and turn them into beautiful pieces of design. Since Miles, I don’t think anyone has been as able to turn out album covers that are quite so evocative of the music inside the sleeve. His design looked like the music sounded, period. And because he was so good, people have been ripping him off since day one. I don’t know how Mr. Miles would feel about it, but I always like to see what people come up with. Enter the latest in a long line of imitators, the Wu-Note Project, a reimagining of the Wu Tang Clan’s recordings as Blue Note covers. Nice. Full photoset here.
via BoingBoing
“ Big Bird absorbs this information with the thoughtfulness of any curious 6-year-old, which is what he is. But that wasn’t how he was originally hatched. “For the first few shows, he was just a silly, goofy guy,” recalls Spinney. “Then one day I said, ‘Big Bird should be a kid. Forget the fact that he’s eight feet tall.’ And real children accepted him.” Indeed, Big Bird fast became a signature figure on “Sesame Street.” Early on, he appeared solo on the cover of Time magazine, which dubbed his show “TV’s Gift to Children.” But even if he has never grown older, he has never stood still. Spinney continues to refine the performance. “I study tapes to see how to get new expressions out of his face,” Spinney says. “I see something good that I did, and I take note to make sure I do it again.” As the silver-haired, nattily bearded Spinney speaks with a reporter in his dressing room, Big Bird’s lower half is hanging in the closet: fuzzy orange fleece pants with platter-size feet, into which Spinney climbs almost like pulling on waders. Then, on the set, with an assistant’s help, he encases himself in the feathered yellow body and head before each scene is taped. A tiny television monitor harnessed to his chest lets him glimpse the outside world. He recites Big Bird’s lines as his upraised right hand supports the head and animates its mouth and eyes. “The head weighs about 4 1/2 pounds,” reports Spinney. “One fellow says, ‘That’s no big deal, I can do that.’ And I said, ‘All right. Let’s hold our hand up for five minutes. You don’t even have to put anything in it.’ And in a couple of minutes, he said, ‘My God!’ “There’s a rule with puppetry: If it’s comfortable, you’re probably doing it wrong.” Spinney laughs. “My arm has gotten much stronger than it was when I started. I’m really great at painting ceilings.” Spinney is one of but a few charter members of the show still on the Street. Among them: Bob McGrath (Bob) and Loretta Long (Susan), as well as camera man Frankie Biondo.
Big Bird’s still huge as ‘Sesame Street’ hits 40
